page_title: Chris Green (horseman)
hierarchical_section_title: Chris Green (horseman)
caption_attribution_description: English: This painting, by an unknown hand (but possibly after Henry Barraud who painted Half Caste in 1859), was last known (1984) to be held by a descendant of Chris Green, the jockey, and was painted after he won the wikipedia:1859 Grand National on Half Caste.
context_page_description: Chris Green was a leading English steeplechase rider and trainer who won two Aintree Grand Nationals as jockey and trained the winning horse in another, The Lamb in 1871.
  He was active as a rider from around 1837 to around 1863, and as a trainer from the mid-1850s to about 1872, two years before his death. He interspersed his professional racing life with periods concentrating on his farming interests on the Norfolk–Cambridgeshire borders.
  His full name was Christopher Green but throughout his professional life he was referred to as Chris or Cris Green.
context_section_description: Chris Green (1820–1874) was a leading English steeplechase rider and trainer who won two Aintree Grand Nationals as jockey (1850 on Abd-el-Kader and 1859 on Half Caste) and trained the winning horse in another, The Lamb in 1871.
  He was active as a rider from around 1837 to around 1863, and as a trainer from the mid-1850s to about 1872, two years before his death. He interspersed his professional racing life with periods concentrating on his farming interests on the Norfolk–Cambridgeshire borders.
  His full name was Christopher Green but throughout his professional life he was referred to as Chris or Cris Green.
caption: ″Half Caste with C. Green up″ (anonymous but possibly after Henry Barraud who painted Half Caste in 1859)
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